Can't delete files

For some reason I cannot delete PDF (most of them anyway) files that I have created myself i.e. a word document that I have saved or converted to pdf, scanned documents (scanned to pdf) and some word documents.

I also can't seem to find any help for this anywhere and the help that was available I have tried to no avail. I am desperate to get rid of all the unwanted files (pdfs) on laptop but no joy.

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Hi Ian - it says that the "action can't be completed because the file is open in another application" which makes absolutely no sense because it says the same even after I have restarted my PC and no applications have been running. I have had this problem before on my old laptop on occassions (windows 7) but normally I was able to remove the files after a restart. In this instance nothing helps

Typically when I have this type of issue, I'll first try.....
Rebooting the machine into safe mode (hold the shift key while clicking restart)
If that doesn't get the job done the I use a program called Unlocker from here http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/
If that still doesn't do it then I just boot with a Linux Distro Live CD and delete it that way....... now that has never failed me.

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